Tom Waits - Watch Her Disappear (Scenes From Amelia)

“Watch Her Disappear“ by Tom Waits from the album ’Alice’ Listen Here: Footage is a clip from Edouard Locke’s Film Amelia, featuring footage of the dance troupe LaLa La Human Steps from Quebec, Canada. Dancers: Naomi Stikeman and Jason Shipley-Homes LYRICS Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you and from a window across the lawn I watched you undress wearing a sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair that rose in strangled ebony curls moving in a yellow Bedroom light The air is wet with sound The faraway yelping of a wounded dog and the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat a light goes on and a door opens and yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard a wooden cherry scent is faintly breathing the air I hear your champagne laugh you wear two lavender orchids one in your hair and one on your hip a string of yellow carnival lights comes on with the dusk circling the lake in a slowly dipping halo and I hear a Banjo tango and you dance into the shadow of a Black Poplar Tree I watch you as you disappear I watch you as you disappear I watch you as you disappear